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BITTINGER AND BEDINGER 

FAMILIES 

DESCENDANTS OF 

ADAM BUDINGER 



Dedication. 



To the memory of my father, the Reverend Joseph 
Baugher Bittinger, D. D., this account of his ancestors and 
their descendants is dedicated by his daughter, Lucy 
Forney Bittinger. 



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Prefatory Note. 



The plan upon which this family history is arranged is 
one frequently used, and should be clear after a short exami- 
nation; those persons to whom a special section is allotted 
are designated by an Arabic numeral aside of their name, 
and the section relating to them by the same (Roman) num- 
eral; the line of their ancestry back to the emigrant, in a par- 
enthesis following the name. The diagram index is (it is 
believed) a new idea, and I hope it will prove intelligible and 
helpful. The sources of the history contained in this pam- 
phlet are court, church and family records, and published lo- 
cal histories ; in particular, the histories of York and Adams 
Counties, Pennsylvania, contain so many items that the 
mere references would materially increase the bulk of the 
work. I have used many letters, and interviews with mem- 
bers of the family, so numerous that it would be impractica- 
ble to give the authority for every statement. Thanks for 
help are due to so many of my kinsfolk, near and remote, liv- 
ing and dead, that I cannot particularize them, and must 
ask those living to accept this general acknowledgment. 

Lucy Forney Bittinger. 
New Years Day, 1904. 



BITTINGER AND BEDINGER 

FAMILIES. 



I. ADAM BUDINGER (born 1698, died about 1768) 
was a native of the village of "Dorschel in the principality of 
Lichtzstine," (Liitzelstein?) near Strasburg — a spot which 
cannot now be identified. His father's name is said to 
have been Peter. The family name, now transliterated as 
Bedinger and Bittinger, is probably derived from that of a 
town and principality in Hesse. Adam B. married in 

Dorschel ANNA MARGARETHE ; they had four 

children born to them before ''Hans Adam," (as his name 
appears in the passenger-list) emigrated with a certain Peter 
B. to Penna. They arrived at Philadelphia August 30, 
1737, on the ship Samuel, sailing from Rotterdam; the 
ship on its return voyage took back John Wesley from his 
unsuccessful missionary efforts in Georgia. Adam B. is 
said to have first resided in Lancaster Co., then to have 
emigrated to the "Conewago Settlements" (afterwards 
Hanover), York Co. His name appears in the church 
records of the latter place about 1744. The land embrac- 
ing the present "Homestead Farm" in Berwick Township, 
Adams Co., was patented to "Adam Beetinger" by Thomas 
and Richard Penn, May 7, 1753, under the name of the 
"Shauman Tract," a family of this name having occupied it 
for three years previous, probably as squatters. Apparent- 
ly, Anna Margarethe B. died about 1750, and Adam B. 
married SABINA at an unknown date. She sur- 
vived him, with ten children : 

2. i. Nicholas, born June 11, 1725. 

3. li. Henry, born 1730. 

iii. Michael (or George Michael) seems to have re- 



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mained in Berwick Tp.. up to the Revolution; 
in 1799 Michael B.. a hlacksmith, held property 
in Franklin and Menallen Tps., Adams Co. 
He is said to have died there. 

iv. Pctrr moved to Shepherdstown, (now W.) Va., 
after 1762. He did not attain the wealth of 
his two elder brothers, but, according to Sam- 
uel Lane, "was a poor man." 

V. Af aril lis (No records). 

vi. Gc'orgc had a dautj^hter Christina, born 1759; he 
probably died in Adams Co. 

vii. Adam had children bai)tized in 1754 at St. 
Michael's of Conewago. His wife. Anna Ma- 
ria Magdalena, died 1760, aged 34, and he 
■ erected to her an almost illegible stone in the 

old graveyard. ("Winebrenner's") near the 
Carlisle turnpike. Hanover, 
viii. Christian enlisted in Capt. Dowdel's companv of 
riflemen from York Co. in 1775; he survived 
the war, as his name appears upon the list of 
Revolutionary pensioners. 

ix. Frederick (No records). 

X. Eva is said (by Samuel Lane) to have "married 
a man named Macelbine or Maselheim of Han- 
over." 

n. NICHOLAS BIETTINGER .(Adami) born June 
1 1, 1725, died May 2. 1804, was 12 years old when brought 
to this country. When grown to manhood, he cleared the 
tract upon which "Bender's Mill" (between FLinover and 
Abbottstown) now stands and built a mill — not the pres- 
ent edifice — on which was a stone, now lost, bearing his 
name and the date of the erection. "Tt is reported that 
he made the acquaintance of his wife picking brush, while 
he cleared the tract; this was often the subject of remark, 
because he afterwards attained so great wealth." He mar- 



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ried MARIA CHRISTINA REINBOLDT about 1747; 
her son-in-law, Samuel Lane, described her as "a very smart 
woman." In 1753 Nicholas B. was elected deacon of St. 
Michael's church. Ten years after we find him sent to the 
conference of Lutheran ministers in Philadelphia to plead 
that a minister be sent to the church; it was impossible to 
do so. and the conference appointed him to read sermons and 
keep the congregation together until better times. He was, 
as his son-in-law said, "a terrible Lutheran," a generous 
subscriber to St. Michael's, and subsequently to St. John's 
at Abbottstown. He was naturalized in Philadelphia in 
1760, and at York in 1768; why twice, is unknown. In 
1 77 1, after his father's death, Nicholas B. purchased the 
Homestead Farm from the other heirs, but probably never 
lived there; he resided and died upon the "Geiselman (now 
Nagel) farm" near Abbottstown. When, at the outbreak 
of the Revolution, the Committees of Observation were 
formed in every county, Nicholas B. was appointed on that 
of York Co., December 16, 1774. serving one year. "He 
was one of the first that took up arms against the tyranny of 
the King of England and his ministers," and raised a com- 
pany of minutemen at his own expense, being commissioned 
a Captain, August, 1776. in the third battalion of York Co. 
These militia were formed into the organization known as 
the "Flying Camp," were for a time stationed in "the Jer- 
seys," and then made up part of the unfortunate garrison 
of Fort Washington, who were captured, and many of the 
prisoners bayoneted by the British, while Washington, view- 
ing from the other side of the river the tragedy he could not 
prevent, wept "with the tenderness of a child." Capt. B, 
was severely wounded and "taken prisoner, fighting at the 
head of his company," and being sent to the infamous Brit- 
ish prisons in New York, "endured a long and hard cap- 
tivity which induced the disease which terminated his life." 
After an imprisonment of six months, during which he kept 



himself from starvingf by shoemakin.e:. he "was finally ex- 
changed thro' the influence of his son-in-law, Maj. Clark, 
and would have been promoted, but on account of his 
wounds was retired." Meanwhile Christina B. was also 
serving and suffering for her country, for she had "great 
trouble when her husband was away in the army, with a 
large family of children and unmanageable slaves to take 
care of, always in terror of the British and Indians." Capt. 
B. resided for the rest of his life on his farm near Abbotts- 
town, where he lived in considerable style, educated his 
children and was a man of great wealth and influence in 
his day. It is said that his daughters were the only per- 
sons who at that time wore silks; he had the first and only 
gig in that neighborhood. The family were nicknamed 
"der Adel" (the nobility) in the country-side. "He was 
a prodigious Whig," says Samuel Lane, "as were they all." 
In person he was tall but spare, and "a very unfashionable 
man." He had a large amount of property, owning 
"1,000 acres in Franklin Co., two mills in Adams Co., with 
300 acres to each mill, besides a great deal of other prop- 
erty." He died from the consequences of his imprison- 
ment, leaving a "widow, two sons and seven daughters to 
mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and father." "I 
have always heard him spoken of with pride and reverence," 
writes a great-granddaughter. Maria Christina B. (born 
June 10. 1728, died May 2;^, 1812) survived her husband. 
Their children were : 

4. i. Maria Christina, born August 14. 1748. married 

Seth Duncan, 
ii. Joint, eldest son of Nicholas B., assisted him in 
the management of the mill, and was one of his 
administrators: he died a bachelor in Balti- 
more. 

5. iii. Margaret, married John Clark. 

6. iv. Mary Magdalcna, born 1754, married William 

Hamilton. 



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7. V. Anna Barbara, born 1758, married Samuel Lane. 

8. vi. Elisabeth, born August 20, 1760, married An- 

drew Baum, M. D. 

vii. Mary, born 1761, died February 20, 1849, mar- 
ried Harman or Harmon of Abbottstown, 

in which neighborhood her descendants still re- 
side. 

viii. Susanna, born February 28, 1763, died July 15, 
1849, married Tobias Kepner, Esq., who was 
for forty years a justice of the peace, and treas- 
urer of the Hanover & Berlin Turnpike Co. 
He resided outside of Abbottstown on a farm 
which Nicholas B. gave to his daughter Susan- 
na. 'Squire K. was killed by his horse run- 
ning away while he was out collecting the 
money from the tollgates. After her husband's 
death Susanna removed to Abbottstown. They 
had six children (surname Kepner) : i. Joseph; 
ii. John (who is said to have served in the War 
of 1812); iii. Mrs. Wheeler of Baltimore; iv. 
Mrs. Bushman; v. Benjamin, died in Ohio; vi. 
Mrs. Null (?). There is no information of 
their remoter descendants, save in the case of 
John, who married Mary Heefner, and had 
three sons: William, Tobias (both now dead) 
and Levi, who married Sarah Ann Davis and 
had six sons: John, Franklin, James, George, 
Super, and Reuben (dec'd); all are married 
and have children, 
ix. Catharine, married George Rudy, predeceased 
her father. In 1805 George R. is mentioned 
as having "come in from Kentucky" in con- 
nection with the settlement of Nicholas B.'s 
estate, but nothing further is known of any de- 
scendants. 



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9- X. Joseph, b. February 26, 1773, married Elizabeth 
Baugher. 
IV. MARIA CHRISTINA BITTINGER, (Nicholas^ 
Adam') born August 14. 1748, died September 25, 1821, 
married SETH DUNCAN (born 1730, died August 3, 
1793)- He was a native of Donegal, emigrated about 
1750. l(Kated in Lancaster Co., married and later removed 
to Abbottstown. His first wife dying in 1777, he married 
Christina B. They had three children (surname Duncan) : 
John, Polly and Adam. The last named was the only one 
who married; he died 1840, leaving seven children (sur- 
name Duncan): i. Martha, married George Smith; she is 
dead, leaving three daughters, Mary, Clara and Lunetta; 
ii. Anna, married \Vm. Moulder of Philadelphia and died 
childless; iii. Joanna, died in youth; iv. John; v. Calvin M. 
of Chambersburg, Pa., died 1894. a lawyer by profession, 
State Senator 1 865-7 [. ^"d an earnest advocate of the 
Border Raid claims; married Deceml^er, 1858, Mary Grace 
Metzger and had five sons; C. Mark, Robt. S.. Frank M., 
John M.. and Wm. (died 1893); vi. William, died 1884 in 
Gettysburg; he was a member of the Forty-ninth Congress 
and elected to the Fiftieth at the time of his death; he mar- 
ried Catharine M. Schmucker, daughter of the Rev. 
S. S. Schmucker. one of the founders of the Luth- 
eran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg; she 
survives him with four sons; John (now dead). 
Charles .S., a graduate of the law dci)artment of the 
University of Pennsylvania, and District Attorney of 
Adams Co.. 1889-97; Schmucker. a graduate of Yale, now 
residing in Gettysburg, and William, president of Citizens' 
Bank, Eureka Springs. Ark.; vii. Augustus, the last sur- 
•vivor of Adam D.'s family, a widower since i860, has had 
three children, two of w^hom died in infancy, and Anna, died 
1873. aged 15 years. 



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V. MARGARET BITTINGER (Nicholas2, Adami) 
(born — , died March 2, 1833), was married during the Rev- 
olution to Major JOHN CLARK (born about 1751, 
died December 27, 1819). "The story is that she was en- 
gaged to a brother-officer of Capt. Clark's to whom he 
often talked about her. Capt. C. met her when on a fur- 
lough and pressed his claims so vigorously that they were 
married before his return." (A. H, Lane.) John Clark 
was a native of Lancaster Co., Pa. He studied law un- 
der Sam'l Johnson, Esq., of York, and had just commenced 
its practice when the Revolution broke out. He was one 
of the York riflemen of Capt. Dowdel's company, formed 
July 1st, 1775, who marched to the relief of Boston; was 
afterwards made 3rd Lieutenant; when, at the opening of 
the year 1776, the riflemen were formed into the First 
Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Line, he became 2nd 
Lieutenant. In June of the same year he was made Major 
in Col. McAllister's regiment of the "Flying Camp." In 
February. 1777, he was appointed one of the auditors of the 
army. Subsequently he served as aide-de-camp on the staff 
of Gen. Greene, as we learn from a letter of Washington, 
most flatteringly expressed, which recommended Major C. 
for some civil appointment, as he felt that in justice to his 
family he could no longer afford to serve in the unpaid Con- 
tinental army. Some years after the close of the war, 
"General" C, as he was commonly called, resumed the 
practise of law in York, and "continued in it until the time 
of his death. On that day he attended court and pursued 
his business as usual. He went to bed at half-past eight 
and at nine his race on earth was run." He was a promi- 
nent Mason; the aprons worn by him as Master and Royal 
Arch Mason were presented to the York lodge by his daugh- 
ter, Juliana. His children all died childless, and the fam- 
ily became extinct in the second generation. These children 
were: (surname Clark.) 



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i. Mildred, died ^Tarch 13, 1833, married Jacob Bed- 
inger (See Sec. III. ) 

ii. George Washington, died December 23, 1835. 

iii. Mary, died Deceml>er 2, 1853. 

iv. Harriet A., died January 6, 1862. 

V. Lainnia, died December 6, 1867. 

vi. Juliana, l)orn January 18, 1788, died April 12, 1874. 



VI. MARY MAGDALEN A BITTINGER (Nicholas^, 
Adam') born 1754, died December 17, 1842, was married 
September 14, 1775, to WILLIAM HAMILTON, born 
March 20, 1751, died September 22, 1823. William Ham- 
ilton was the son of John H.. a Scotch-Irishman, who 
landed in this country in 1729. married Florence Morrow 
and passed most of his life in York Co. William and 
Magdalen H. lived on what is known as the "Hankey farm,'* 
three miles west of Gettysburg, the title to which he pur- 
chased from the heirs of William Penn; the old homestead 
was standing at the time of the battle, and was used by the 
Confederates as a hospital. William H. was in the 4th 
Battalion of the Flying Camp : he was orderly sergeant, 
afterwards promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. He was taken 
prisoner at Fort Washington, and at the time of the birth 
of his oldest child, Margaret, he. as well as Magdalen H.'s 
father, were prisoners in the hands of the British. He was 
one of the commissioners appointed to supervise the erec- 
tion of the first county buildings at Gettysburg, when Adams 
Co. was formed. He and his wife reached advanced age. 
Sketches of some descendants will be found in "History of 
Washington Co." Phila(lcli)hia. 1882. Their children were: 
(surname Hamilton.) 

i. Margaret, born September 21, 1776, died 1872, 
married David Hamilton, Esq.. of Washing- 



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ton Co., Pa.; they were childless. She was 
described as "a lady in whom were singularly 
combined the refined manners of the East, and 
the hardihood of the West. She crossed the 
mountains to and fro between Washington and 
Adams Counties seventeen times, and always 
on horseback except on her last trip." Her 
husband, "Squire Hamilton," as he was called, 
was prominent in the troubles of the Whiskey 
Insurrection, though he endeavored to prevent 
violence. At the destruction of the collector, 
Gen. Neville's house. Squire Hamilton took the 
commander of the guard upon his horse and en- 
abled him to escape. Afterwards, the sheriff's 
officers seized Hamilton's still ; he pretended to 
submit, plied the officers with Jamaica ginger 
until they were drunk and then, with the assist- 
ance of neighbors carried away and hid the 
still and whiskey; from this occurrence is said 
to be derived the name of his homestead, "Gin- 
ger Hill." 

10. ii. John, born September 3, 1778. 

iii. Florence, born May 25, 1780, died in infancy. 

iv. Jane, born May 25, 1780, died January 5, 1863, 
married James Black (b. 1780; d. 1859) ; their 
children were: (surname Black), Robert, Wil- 
liam, John, Maria, Margaret, Matilda (Mrs, 
Fred. Diehl), James and Franklin. 

V. William, born April i, 1782, died in Ohio, 1859, 
married in 1804 Elizabeth Lafferty of Wash- 
ington Co., Pa. M. Clifford Hamilton, form- 
erly of Pittsburg, is a grandson. 

11. vi. Joseph, born September i, 1784. 

vii. Enoch, born July i, 1786, married Mrs. 

Russell; his daughter, Harriet C, married in 



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1847 Joseph Bayly; they have four sons (sur- 
name Bayly) : William Hamilton, a lawyer 
of Washington. D. C. ; Joseph T., Samuel Rus- 
sell, a farmer, and Vanwick. During the bat- 
tle of Gettysburg, Mrs. B. was alone with her 
children in her house, which was within the 
Confederate lines; she went out on the field, 
dressing the wDunded of both armies and for 
weeks after the battle, baked bread for the 
soldiers and the hospitals. Her experiences 
were told in an article entitled "Three Days 
of Rebel Rule : A Woman's Story," published 
in the New York Tribune of August 26. 1888; 
also in "Stories of Pennsylvania." 1897, under 
the title of "In the Rear at Gettysburg." 
viii. Jauirs, burn June 23, 1788, "was dissipated; 
never married, and in middle life committed 
suicide." 

ix. Robert, born January 25, 1791, died s. p- 183 1. 
X. George, born October 9. 1792, died i860; mar- 
ried, March 17, 181 7, Nancy, daughter of Jas. 
Dowley of Adams Co., Pa., (died 1857). 
George H. came West in 1827. His children 
were: (surname Hamilton), William, Sarah, 
Jesse, James, George B.. Harriet, Maria, 
David, John. Margaretta. Angeline and Rob- 
ert H.; all living except William, who died in 
Cincinnati in 1878. 

xi. David, born Januar} 4. 1795, died December 
10, 1886; married Harriet (died July 
19. 1849) daughter of his uncle. Hon. John 
Hamilton, of W'ashington Co., Pa. Of their 
children (surname Hamilton) Margaret A. and 
John P. died in childhood. Mrs. Eliza Cornelia 
Longwell and Mrs. Amanda J. Callow in ma- 



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ture life, while Mrs. Maria L. Henry and Mrs. 
Camilla Henry are still living. 

xii. Jesse, born October 15, 1797, married 

Vance, and had one child, now Mrs. Blue- 

baugh. 

X. JOHN HAMILTON (Magdalen Hamilton3, Nich- 

olas2, Adami) born September 3, 1778, died — . Married 

MARGARET SHEAKLEY, and they had two sons: 

(surname Hamilton.) 

i. William SJwakley, born 18 10, Clerk of the 
Courts of Adams Co. (1846-49); married 
Eveline Bayly; they had eight children: 
(surname Hamilton.) i. Joseph, served three 
years in Company K, First Pennsylvania Re- 
serves, was wounded in McClellan's Penin- 
sular campaign, married Martha McCullough, 
and resides on a farm near Gettysburg; ii. 
Calvin, born November 29, 184 1; a student in 
Pennsylvania College, he left in 1862 before 
graduation and enlisted in Company K, First 
Pennsylvania Reserves, being wounded at the 
battle of Gettysburg while defending his na- 
tive town; was subsequently a teacher in Get- 
tysburg and other places, is now Secretary of 
the Battlefield Memorial Association, and Su- 
perintendent of the National Cemetery; mar- 
ried Annie K. Hanway, and has one daughter, 
Ruth; iii. Mary J., married Rev. S. A. Diehl, 
resides at Bendersville, Pa. ; iv. Margaret, mar- 
ried David McGrew (died 1894), their two 
sons died in boyhood; v. Susan, died aged 
sixteen; vi. William, was killed by a fall from 
a tree when twenty-eight years old; vii. John 
B., married Delia Armor and lives in Gettys- 
burg; viii. Martha E., born November 17, 



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1852; married May 29, 1873, Rev. J. W. Fink- 
biner, D. D. ; lives in Colorado Springs; they 
have three sons: (surname Finkbiner) : Bay- 
ley Hamilton, born Septeml)er 10, 1879; 
Robertson Rambo, born October 29, 1881; 
Nilsson McQueen, born June 3, 1888. 
ii. John, born 181 5, died January 3, 1894, a sturdy 
and upright citizen; he married in 1838 Sarah 
Eline; they had four sons and two daughters. 
John and Marcus, his two elder sons, entered 
the army early in the war and made for them- 
selves honorable records in their country's ser- 
vice. 
XT. JOSEPH HAMILTON (Magdalen HamiIton3, 
Nicholas-, Adam^) came west soon after reaching 
manhood; he married MARGARET FERGUSON, 
and resided in Williamsport (now Monongahela 
City) where he wrought at his trade of carpenter and also 
kept an inn. He was for many years Treasurer of the 
Williamsport Turnpike Company and did much in the way 
of settling up estates. He and his wife were life-long 
members of the Presbyterian church. Tlieir children were: 
(surname Hamilton.) 

i. Sarah, born October 24, 181 3, died December 18, 
1889. married Henry Wilson; two of their sons, 
Joseph and Robert, served full terms in the Union 
Army. 
ii. Mary Jane, born March 11. 1816. inarried Nimrod 
A. Gregg, and died in Iowa, leaving three chil- 
dren (surname Gregg) : Aaron T., Mrs. McCau- 
ley and Mrs. Beck, 
iii. Margaret, born May 23. 18 19, died young, 
iv. Harriet, born September 11. 1821, died March 10, 
1887, married T. R. Hazzard, Esq. Two of 
their sons served in the army. Col. C. W. Haz- 



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zard, editor of the Monongahela City Republi- 
can, and Capt, J. D. V. Hazzard; the latter lost 
an arm at the battle of Perrysville. Thos. L. 
Hazzard is a physician in Allegheny. 
V. William Ferguson, born March 24, 1824, deceased; a 
graduate of Washington College and the Western 
Theological Seminary, ordained in i860 to the 
Presbyterian ministry, pastor at Centre, Union- 
town, Salem and Livermore, Pa.; wrote on 
historical and other subjects, and supplied most 
of the information of this section; married Janu- 
ary 28, 1858, L. Louisa Beeson, and they have 
seven children (surname Hamilton) : Isaac B-, a 
physician in Los Angeles, Cal.; Mary K. ; Mar- 
garet F. ; William B., a missionary in Chinanfu, 
China; Eliza L., married July 10, 1900, Harry S. 
Grayson ; Joseph, a home missionary in West Vir- 
ginia, and Louis P. 
vi. David Ralston, born June 26, 1826, unmarried, re- 
sides at the homestead of Ginger Hill, as does 
viii. John, born September 25, 1828, married February 
12, 1867, Elizabeth T, Purviance; they have one 
daughter, Elizabeth. 
ix. Martha Isabel, born February 3, 1831, married M. 
Porter Patton, died in Denver, September 15, 
1896, leaving four children (surname Patton) : 
John, William, Andrew and Martha Isabel. 



VII. ANNA BARBARA BITTINGER (Nicholas2, 
Adami,) born 1758, died January 11, 183 1, married about 
1787 SAMUEL LANE (died 1852), son of Peter Lehn. 
The L. family, who were Lutherans, emigrated from Lor- 
raine to Holland sometime in the seventeenth century, and 
settled in York Co. about 1755. Mrs. Harriet Lane John- 



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ston, who presided so brilliantly at the White House during 
the administration of her uncle, President Buchanan, be- 
longed to the same family. Samuel Lane came to 
Franklin Co. from Philadelphia in the last decade of 
the eighteenth century, and erected mills in Quincy Town- 
ship. Under his supervision Mont Alto furnace was first 
built. Barbara Lane was very handsome, a few years 
older than her husband; a small woman with red hair; "she 
was," says her granddaughter, Mrs. Adelaide Grey, "a su- 
perior woman in every sense of the word, a wonderful 
housekeeper, as all her daughters were, and of rare intel- 
ligence for those times; and more than all her piety was 
great. I was told of the strict observance of Sunday that 
was enforced in her home — every task was concluded by 
sunset of Saturday." Her daughter, Elizabeth, often said 
in her last illness, "My mother was a woman who had the 
fear of God before her eyes." Her obituary says : "Mrs. 
Lane possessed a vigorous intellect, and but a short time 
before she expired, evinced with great composure, her resig- 
nation to the will of her Heavenly Father." Anna Bar- 
bara and Samuel Lane had four children: (surname Lane.) 
12. i. Nicholas Bit linger, born 1802. 

ii. Juliana, married William Hayman; after her 
marriage she resided in Georgetown, D. C, 
until lier husband's death, when the family 
returned to Mont Alto. She had seven chil- 
dren (surname Hayman): i. William 
(deceased); ii.Mary, residing with her sis- 
ters in Chambersburg; iii. Anna Barbara, a 
teacher in various Episcopal schools, but now 
living with her sisters; we are indebted to her 
for the preservation of much family tradi- 
tion; iv. Julia; v. Kate; vi. Samuel Lane, 
who was killed as a captain in the Confed- 
erate service in the battle of the Wilderness; 



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vii. Adelaide (Mrs. Grey, residing in Freder- 
icksburg, Va. ) 
iii. Mary, married James Gettys, of the family af- 
ter whom Gettysburg was named; they were 
childless; Mrs. Gettys resided during her 
married life in Georgetown, D. C., but in 
widowhood returned to Mont Alto, 
iv. Elisabeth, who died unmarried. 
XII. NICHOLAS BITTINGER LANE (Barbara 
Lane3, Nicholas^, Adami) born 1802, died April, 1853. 
He was born in a log house near Funkstown, in which his 
parents lived while the Mont Alto mansion house was 
building. As a youth he learned the art of surveying, but 
in 1 818 when he was only sixteen years old he began the 
study of medicine with Dr. S. D. Culbertson in Chambers- 
burg. He was said greatly to resemble his grandfather, for 
whom he was named; "if so," wrote Mr. A. H. Lane, "our 
ancestor, if he was unfashionable,' was a fine-looking man." 
He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania before he 
was twenty-one; his graduating thesis was published at the 
request of the faculty. He is said to have been the lead- 
ing physician of Chambersburg, where he lived. He also 
acquired skill in dentistry. His homestead, with his library 
and papers, was burned when the town was destroyed dur- 
ing the war. For thirty years he practiced dentistry 
and physic in Chambersburg, dying in the cholera epidemic 
in 1853. His wife was Eliza Hetich, the daughter of 
Thomas Hetich, a prominent citizen of Chambersburg, and 
Catharine Rudisill, a member of the noted York county 
family of that name. They had eleven children (surname 
Lane) : 

i. William Culbertson, M. D., born March 22, 1825, 
died 1890, a graduate of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, practised successively in Greensburg, 
Pa., Menden, 111., and Mercersburg, Pa., and its 



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vicinity. He was surgeon of the 122nd Penn- 
sylvania during the war, and afterward of the 
Board of Enrollment. He was a graceful and 
gifted writer, especially interested in matters of 
local history. He is survived by his wife (form- 
erly Miss Araminta W'akeman) and five children: 
(surname Lane) i. Thomas W., married Anna 
Smith; ii. William A.; iii. George H.. married 
Rachel Shryock; iv. Samuel L- ; v. Cornelia. 
ii. Samuel Gettys, M. D., a graduate of the University 
of Pennsylvania 1849), practised for a short time 
in Bucyrus, O., with his uncle. Dr. Andrew Het- 
ich; at his father's death he returned to Cham- 
bersburg and succeeded him in his practice. He 
married in i860, Emily McLenegan (died Novem- 
ber 14, 1885); they were childless. At the out- 
break of the war Gov. Curtin appointed Dr. Lane 
surgeon in the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves. He 
was subsequently made Assistant Surgeon- 
General of Pennsylvania and breveted Lieutenant 
Colonel by act of Congress. A fellow-surgeon 
says : "Active and humane were weak terms, as 
his career on many a bloody field proved; as with 
the Reserves at 2nd Bull Run, South Mnu'.tain, and 
Fredericksburg. At Antietam he wilhngly risked 
his life by going into action with his brigade. At 
Gettysburg, in the second day's fierce battle, he 
showed his courage by charging the enemy with 
his brigade at Round Top, encouraging oi'licers 
and men by his presence. It was not excitement 
that made him regardless of death, but a cool, calm 
courage — moral courage — that made him stand 
amid the din and danger of battle, doing his duty 
to those falling around him." After the war 
Dr. Lane resumed his practice in Chambersburg, 



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' where "he was pre-eminently and rightly regarded 

as the first citizen; he possessed the finest private 
library in this section of the state, and therein was 
his greatest pleasure. He was a forcible writer; 
as a physician and surgeon he had few superiors 
in the country. The noted men with whom he 
was connected during the war, still delight to 
speak of him as the most skillful surgeon they 
knew in the army." "We mourn our departed 
friend and fellow-Christian and comrade, the loyal 
soldier, the eminent physician, the accomplished 
scholar, who has gone to God." Another friend 
says : "Well born, well bred, accomplished, ver- 
satile, gentle and chivalrous, with a fine sense of 
humor, a sound judgment, and a soul above any- 
thing that was mean or sordid — such was Samuel 
G. Lane." 

iii, Thomas H., a resident of Pittsburgh during most of 
his life, a member of the hardware firm of Wolff, 
Lane & Co., an active member of the Grant street 
Lutheran church, and superintendent for forty 
years of its Sunday-school. 

iv, Catherine A., married to James Hamilton, M. D., 
who was associated in practice with Dr. S. G. 
Lane. He died from privations suffered in 
southern prisons, leaving a widow and four chil- 
dren : (surname Hamilton) i. James, married El- 
len White; ii. Samuel L., married Mary Fackiner; 
iii. Anna H. (deceased) ; iv. Sarah L. (deceased). 
v. Paul Hetich, born Nov. 17, 1834, died September 21, 
1836. 

vi. Sarah Hetich, "a woman of sweet and exalted char- 
acter," who died in Pittsburgh, January, 1889. 

vii. Mary Getty s, born December 4, 1836, died June 5, 
1837. 



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viii. Augustus H., died January 23, 1896, was for more 
than 40 years a resident of Pittsburgh, engaged 
in the hardware business. We are indebted to 
him for the discovery and preservation of most 
of this history, not only of the Lane, but of the Bit- 
tinger family. He married Mary R., daughter 
of William Price, one of Pittsburgh's early resi- 
dents, and had four children: (surname Lane) i. 
Eliza H. (deceased); ii. George B. ; iii. Mary P.; 
iv. Frances W. 
ix. Maria Elicabcth was, says her brother Thomas, "a 
member of the Subsistence Committee of Pitts- 
burgh from its inception, and served upon it with 
great devotion, and as we believed, to the detri- 
ment of her health. The members were subject 
to summons at all hours of day and night, and 
consequently lia1)le to exposure and also to pro- 
tracted demands upon their services." She died 
in Pittsburgh in 1880. 
X. Margaret Hay man, born December 9. 1842. died 

February 28, 1845. 
xi. Edzviu Church, born March 6, 184^, died Mav 4, 

1845- 



\MII. ELIZABETH BEDINGER, as her descendants 
spell the name, (Nicholas2, Adami) born August 2. 1760, 
died June 13, 1833, married, 1787. ANDREW BAUM, M. 
D.. who died in Demerara, where he had purchased property 
and intended to locate. They had two children: (surname 
Baum.) i. David, a physician, who married Catherine 
Dick. He died in Pottsville, Pa., leaving one child, An- 
drew D., who was brought into his uncle's familv after the 
death of his parents; he also was a physician and died s. p. 



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in Orwigsburg, Schuylkill Co., Pa. ii. Sarah, born De- 
cember 21, 1793, married October 28, 1817, at Amity, 
Berks Co., Pa., to her cousin, John F. Baum, M. D. (born 
May 21, 1 79 1, died January 28, 1850) a surgeon in a Berks 
County regiment during the war of 181 2. Their children 
were: (surname Baum.) 

i. Hiram C, born September 15, 18 19, died May 2, 
1874, married December 28, 1854, Lydia A. 
James, died April 14, 1899. They resided in 
Philadelphia, and their children were: (surname 
Baum) i. William Miller, born October i, 1855, 
died s. p. May 10, 1881; ii. Richard West, born 
June 6, 1857. died November 11, 1879; iii. Sarah, 
born June 22, 1861. 
ii. Elizahcfh B., born January 10, 1822, married March 
25, 1852, John G. Stetler, M. D. (died May 31, 
1853) ; their only child died in infancy, 
iii. William M., D. D., born January 25, 1825; died Feb- 
ruary 6, 1902; married May 8, 185 1. Maria L. 
Croll of Middletown, Pa., (born February 13, 
1833, died April 20, 1891). Graduated at Penn- 
sylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., 1846, or- 
dained to the Lutheran ministry 1850. Pastor, 
St. Peter's, Middletown, Pa., 1848-1852. St. 
Peter's. Barren Hill, Pa., 1852-1858; Grace,. 
Winchester, Va., 1858-1861 ; St. Paul's, York, Pa., 
1862-1874; St. Matthew's, Philadelphia, Pa-, 
1874-1902. Trustee of Pennsylvania College 
continuously since 1861, director of Theologi- 
cal Seminary at Gettysburg continuously since 
1858, president of the Lutheran Board of Pub- 
lication since 1874, president of the General 
Synod of the Lutheran Church from 1873 to 1875, 
president of the Board of Trustees of the North- 
ern Home for Friendless Children of Philadelphia 



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since 1887, president of the Pennsylvania Bible 
Society since 1893, contributed at different 
times articles to Theological Reviews and the like. 
For a long time he was a working member of 
fourteen different boards of church or benevolent 
societies, institutions, etc. His children are: 
(surname Baum) i. Rev. John Croll, born Septem- 
ber 19, 1852, d. s. p. October 26, 1886; he was 
pastor of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Canajohar- 
ie, N. Y., until his health failed; ii. Charles. M. 
D., Ph. D. U. of P., born January i, 1855; iii. 
Rev. William M., Jr., D. D., born June 30, 1858, 
succeeds his eldest brother as pastor in Canajo- 
harie. iv. Eliza Croll, born September 25, 1861, 
married November 5, 1900, Harry Clayton Con- 
rad of New York City; v. Mary Small, born De- 
cember 5, 1866; vi. Maria Louisa, born Septem- 
ber 30, 1869; vii. George Croll, born July 15, 1872, 
is an architect living in Pittsburgh; vii. Rev. 
Frederick John, born May 6, 1876, pastor of 
Trinity Lutheran Church, Coatesville, Pa., 
married Roberta E. Ames, April 22nd, 1903. 

iv. George IV., born ]\Iay 27, 1827, died May 2, 1863, 
married, Dec. 20, 1855, Julia C. Nones; he served 
in 1 1 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and 
died in the service; his child died an infant. 

v. Daznd A . born June 6, 1830, is unmarried and lives 
in San Francisco. 

vi. Mary A., born Sept. 20, 1832, died Aug. 29, 1898, 
married. Nov. i, 1865, William B. Small, M. D., 
of Philadelphia. They had two children: (sur- 
name Small) William B., M. D., and Mary L. B., 
born Nov. 17, 1873. died Dec. 29, 1876. 



IX. JOSEPH BITTINGER, (Nicholas2, Adami) born 
Feb. 26, 1773, died July 26, 1804, married, 1792, ANNA 
ELIZABETH BAUGHER (born Jan. 31, 1768, died April 
II, 1850) daughter of Rev. John Geo. Eager, one of the 
earliest Lutheran ministers sent over by the Pietists of Halle 
to work among the Germans of Pennsylvania. Joseph 
B. lived and died upon the tract of "Fishing Hih" or the 
"Myers farm," which Nicholas B. bought from the Hull 
family, the original patentees, in 1791, and gave to his son. 
"Capt. Nicholas" was not pleased with his son's marriage to 
Pastor Bager's daughter, on account of political differences, 
the Bittingers being Democrats and the Bagers Federalists; 
but he became very fond of his daughter-in-law, and it was 
into her hands that he gave the deed of the Homestead Farm 
when he presented it to his son in 1798. Joseph B. died soon 
after his father, his death being caused by drinking cold 
spring water on a hot July day when overheated. His 
widow subsequently married William Young of Hanover, 
and her sons by Joseph B. were brought up in that town. 
They were five in number (besides three daughters who died 
in infancy) : 

i. ]ohn, born Jan. 26, 1793, died July 2, 1873, mar- 
ried, Sept. 21, 18 1 7, Mary Coskery (born in 
Pennsylvania, Jan. 25, 1789, died in George- 
town, now West Washington, D. C., 1848). 
He resided many years in Virginia and died at 
Shadeland, Fairfax Co. They had six chil- 
dren : i. Edmund Coskery. born in Pennsyl- 
vania, March 21, 18 19, d. s. p. Aug. 7, 1889; 
was a chaplain in the U. S. Navy, 1850-1881, 
accompanied Com. Perry's expedition to Ja- 
pan, and was at the time of his death the old- 
est chaplain in service; ii. Joseph, d. s. p. 
aged 21; iii. Benjamin Franklin, D. D., bom 
in West Washington, Aug. 10, 1824, is now 



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and has been for forty years the pastor of the 
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Washing- 
ton, Stated Clerk of his Presbytery and author 
of a standard work on "Presbyterian Law and 
Usage;" he has had three children, John Libby, 
d. s. p., Edward Miller, d. s. p., and Charles 
(died Aug. 31, 1879), married Jan. 25, 1877, 
Isabella M. Wilson; he left two children: Jo- 
sei)h Wilson, died Jan. 2, 1884, and Charles, 
born June 2^, 1879, "o^ studying architecture 
in Paris; iv.. Rev. Michael Henry, who has 
served a Presbyterian church near Greenville, 
Monroe Co., W. Va., for fifty years; he mar- 
ried. April 13. 1858, Martha R. Mofifet. and 
their children are William Moffet. b. August 
II, 1859, married Electa Heath Hill, residing 
in Washington, D. C. ; Rev. John Baugher, 
b. Mar. 13, 1861, who married Belle Price, and 
is serving a Presbyterian church at Rich Val- 
ley. Va.; Mary Coskery, b. Oct. 15. 1862. d. 
Feb. 14, 1888;' Jane R.,'b. Feb. 25, 1865; Mar- 
tha Helen, b. Sept. 12, 1867, d. Dec. 3, 1888; 
Henry Edmund, b. April 10, 1871, married 
to Mary C. Leishart. and living in Washing- 
ton; v.. Margaret, widow of Dr. Henry 
Jacobs, and residing with her sister in Vir- 
ginia; vi. Ruhamah. married Daniel O. Mun- 
son. of Falls Church. Va. She has one 

daughter, Mrs. Mary Jasper Harrison. 
13. ii. Joseph, born Nov. 1, 1794. 

iii. Henry, lx)rn Feb. 21, 1798. died . married, 

Oct. 6. 1829. Julian Sheffer (born Nov. 5, 
1809. died 1837) daughter of Daniel Sheffer, 
for many years Associate Judge in York Co., 
and member of Congress (1837-39) for 



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Adams and Franklin Cos. Henry and Julian 
B. had three children : i. Elizabeth, married 
Geo. C. Barnitz, of Middletown. O., dec'd., and 
has had five children: (surname Barnitz) 
Louisa Naomi, John Swope. Harry D., Wil- 
liam C., and Ella Kate, of whom only the two 
last are living; ii. Augusta Louisa, married 
Reuben Young, of Hanover; their two sons 
(surname Young) Harry B. and David M., are 
both dead; iii. John Wierman, born Nov. lO, 
1S34, was District Attorney of York Co., 
1863-69, Judge of the Courts of same from 
1900, President Judge of same. 1896; sketches 
of his life may be found in Gibson's "History 
of York Co., Pennsylvania"; German Society 
Records and Historical Cyclopedia, 19th Con- 
gressional District ; married Anna Brenneman, 
and has five children : Ida M., John (dec'd), 
Julian, Daniel S., Charles E., and Louise A. 
14. iv. Frederick, born October 12, 1799. 

v. George, born 1804, died 1879, married, Feb. 25, 
1838, Matilda Lichty (born March i, 18 16, 

died ) ; they had four daughters : i. Ann 

Elizabeth (Mrs. Peter Gettier) who had four 
children: (surname Gettier) William, mar- 
ried Miss Crider, Susan (Mrs. Strevig), 
Emma (Mrs. Carbaugh) and George; ii. 
Mary, married, March i, i860, Jacob Grass, 
who has three daughters: (surname Grass) 
Alice, Williamanna (Mrs. Stambaugh) with 
two daughters, Grace and Helen, the latter 
dead; and Beulah, who died an infant; iii. 
Sarah Jane, successively Mrs. Bushy, Mrs, 
Strickler and Mrs. Henry, by the last mar- 
riage she had two children, both married, Katie 



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(Mrs. Saville) and Joseph; iv. Maria (Mrs. 
Nelk) who is dead as well as her child. 
XIII. JOSEPH BITTINGER (Josephs, Nicholas^, 
Adam I) born Nov. i, 1794, died Sept. 7, 1850, married, 
Nov. 30, 1819. LYDIA BAIR (born Aug. 22, 1800, died 
Aug. 26, 1850) daughter of John B., a store-keeper of Han- 
over, who served in the war of 181 2. They moved to the 
Homestead Farm, where they lived all their lives. Joseph 
B. was an excellent farmer, quite a reader and much inter- 
ested in current events; he had been very anxious for an 
education and was strongly desirous that his children should 
have what he had missed- Lydia B. is described by those 
who knew her as a woman lovely both in person and charac- 
ter. They died within a fortnight of each other of a fever 
epidemic in the neighborhood. They had twelve children : 

i. Williajn, born Nov. 21, 1820, died March 3, 
1888; resided most of his life in Abbotstown; 
married, ]\Iay i, 1842, Eliza Hafer, born 
Sept. 3, 1 8 19, died Sept. 19, 1899;) they had 
four children : Prudence Amelia, born Nov. 
30, 1844, died Oct. 24, 1850; Emma Jane, born 
Dec. 8, 1847, died June 5, 1852; Josephine, 
born July 8, 1850, died July 28. 1884, mar- 
ried, Aug. 23, 1870, Daniel Eberly; Mary, 
born Oct. 7, 1852, died March 30, 1S58. 
ii. Henry, born Nov. 13, 1821, died April 22, 1879; 
after his father's death became part owner of 
the Homestead Farm, where he lived during 
his active life, then moved to Hanover. He 
married, Jan. 4, 1846. Amanda Allewelt; they 
had four children : i. Joseph H., M. D., grad- 
uate of Jefiferson Medical College, Philadel- 
phia, practicing in Hanover; married Clara 
Bucher; they have had six children : Lida, died, 
Jan. 20. 1895; Bryant, died January 10, 1895; 



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Ralph Emerson, born Feb. 8, 1889, Bertha, 
died December 24, 1894; Clara, died Decem- 
ber 3, 1894; Mary Allewelt, born May 16, 
1896; ii. the Hon. John R., member for two 
terms of the Pennsylvania Legislature; present 
owner of the Homestead Farm, upon which he 
and his son Maurice conduct the Bittinger 
Lime Co. ; the post office of Bittinger has been 
recently established there. He and his wife 
Florence Stine have four children living : E. 
Maurice, married, April, 1902, Katie Noel; 
Charles H., married October i, 1901, to 
Minnie L. Hostetter; Luther Leroy, and Edna, 
iii. Mary, married, May 23, 1877, to Milton 
Kohler; they lived for a short time at Pome- 
roy, Ohio, now reside in Hagerstown, Md., 
they have six children (surname Kohler); 
Ethel, Leroy, Elsie, Harry, Helen and Earl, 
iv. Ruhamah married Samuel Basehoar; they 
are childless. After the death of his first wife 
Henry B. married her sister, Harriet Allewelt, 
they had two children ; v. Georgianna Barbara, 
married Temple Little; they have three child- 
ren (surname Little) : Helen Harriet, bom 
February 15, 1889; Grace Bittinger, bom 
October i, 1891, and Mary Bittinger, born 
November 27, 1900. vi. William Lewis, 
born April 18, 1865, died May 29, 1898, mar- 
ried Daisy O. Powell, June 16, 1892; he left 
two children, Harriet Allewelt, born October 
6, 1893, and Henry Powell, born December 
13, 1895, living in Hanover. 
15. iii. Joseph Baugher, born March 30, 1823. 

iv. Eleanor Catherine, born Aug. 13, 1824, died 
March 23, 1875, married, Nov. 10, 1844, J. 



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Georg^e Wolff. They first resided on a farm 
near Abbottstown, tlien moved to Gettysburg 
to educate their children : (surname Wolff) : i. 
Charles Milton, practicing law in Hanover, 
Pa., married to Amelia Miller and has two 
sons, Richard and Robert; ii.. Joseph Bittin- 
ger, since 1877 pastor of the Lutheran Church, 
Glen Rock, Pa., married July 18. 1877, Pris- 
cilla Ella Cashman; they have two children, 
Harold and Eleanor; iii., Edward Morris, a 
member of the firm of J. Geo. Wolf's Sons & 
Co.. in Gettysburg, married to Amanda Miller 
and has one son, Charles Milton; iv., Lucilla 
Jane, married October 6, 1880, George 
J. Weaver, resides in Gettysburg and 
has three children, Carrie, Rufus and Bessie; 
v. Howard Nicholas, married to Agnes 
Stump, is a contractor in York, Pa., and their 
children are George. Carrie. Emily, Beulah, 
Luther and Charles; vi., Luther Benaiah, D. 
D., born Nov. 19, 1857, graduated at Pennsyl- 
vania College and Lutheran Theological Sem- 
inary, Gettysburg, Pa., married, July 3. 1883, 
Alice Catherine Benner; missionary at Gun- 
tur. India, since 1883; President Mission 
College there since 1885; has published a his- 
tory of the Mission, "After Fifty Years." 
His wife is at present residing at Lutherville, 
Md.. for their children's education. Their 
children (surname Wolf) are Creorge Benner, 
born June 10, 1884. died July 22. 1880; Edith 
Norris. born Sei)t. i. 18S5. married Oct. 7, 
1903, the Rev. John Fielding Crigler, Luth- 
eran pastor at Lutherville; Eleanor Bittinger, 
born Oct. 2t^, 1886; Anna Dryden, born June 



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25, 1890; Paul Benner, born April 12, 1902; 
vii. Solomon Anderson, married to Hermine 
Bulwinkle, is principal of Gaston College, N. 
C, and has three children; viii., David Me- 
lancthon, head of the firm of J. Geo. Wolf's 
Sons & Co., Gettysburg; is married to Ella 
Lamotte, and has two children. 
V. Edzvard P., born November 14, 1825, died Sep- 
tember 21, 1859, married February 7, 1859, 
His widow and infant child did not long sur- 
vive him. 

vi. Rebecca, born August 21, 1827, married Feb- 
ruary 24, 1852, J. A. Brenneman, M. D. 
He was subsequently engaged in banking, and 
now in orange growing. For some time they 
resided in Freeport, 111., but now live in River- 
side, Cal. Their children are: Csur- 
name Brenneman) P. Emma, born June 8, 
1853, "ow dead, and Clayton, born May 30, 
1 861; besides two daughters, who died in 
infancy. 

vii. George JVashington, born May 13, 1829, early 
removed to Chicago, where he carried on an 
extensive wholesale fruit business until burnt 
out by the great fire. He married August 
10, 1862, Kate Shuyler; after her death he 
married (1866) Sarah Pistana; of this mar- 
riage two sons survive; George Eisendraht, 
married and residing in Riverside. Cal., trus- 
tee of the Carnegie Library there; for eight 
years past cashier of the State National Bank 
in Riverside, and now elected to the same 
position in the Los Angeles National Bank; 
he has one son, Merritt A.; ii. Edward of 
Colorado Springs. Geo. W. B. removed to 



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Leadville, Colorado, where his second wife 
died and he married Mrs. J. C. Hutchinson; 
now resides in Riverside. 
l6. viii. John Quincy, born March 20. 1831. 

ix. Daniel, lx)rn April 10, 1833, died June 8. 1848. 
X. Anna Maria, born January 10, 1835, a graduate 
of Abbott Academy, Andover, Mass., worked 
in the hospitals at Gettysburg after the battle; 
has been engaged in teaching in New Eng- 
land, and now makes her home with her sis- 
ter, Mrs. Brenneman, in Riverside. 

xi. Howard Nicholas, born April 12, 183c), died 
1885, whose middle name was given in hon- 
or of his Revolutionary ancestor, "Capt. 
Nicholas," was the first man of Adams Co. to 
enlist in the Union Army (Company E. 2nd 
Pennsylvania Regiment). He subsequently 
lived in Des Moines, Iowa, married February 
28, 1866, Mary Mace, afterwards removed to 
Omaha and thence to Florida, where he died, 
leaving a widow and three children : i. Guy, 
died July 26, 189s; ii. Ralph; iii. Alice (Mrs. 
Mandville). 

xii. Charles Lewis, born May 25, 1841. He says: 
"enlisted Aug. 26, 186 1. in Comj)anv D., 
76th Pennsylvania Regiment; we w^ere sent 
to Ft. Monroe in November, and in Decem- 
ber were ordered to Hilton Head, S. C, where 
we remained in service until July, i8^>3: we 
then embarked for Morris and Sullivan's 
Islands, near Charlestr)n. and participated in 
the as'^ault ''i Fort Wagner, where T was 
wounded. Julv 11. '63. made a prisoner, tak- 
en to Charleston and then to Columbia. S. C. ; 
there I remained in Richland jail and in the 



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Asylum grounds until Sherman's march on 
Columbia caused us to be sent to Raleigh, N. 
C. ; we were paroled near Wilmington, N. C. 
I was ordered to Washington to settle my ac- 
counts and mustered out of the service; this 
occurred after Lee's surrender." He was 
subsequently in business with his brother 
George in Chicago, and after the great fire 
went to the Black Hills when that country was 
opened up; he is now owner and editor of 
the Daily and Weekly Star of Ocala, Fla. 
He married August 7, 1869, Luceba Hobbs; 
2nd, Helen Nichols; they have had two chil- 
dren, Josephine H. (dead), and Mabel Adele. 
XIV.— FREDERICK BITTINGER (Josephs, Nicho- 
las2, Adami) died December 31, 1881; married Catherine 
House (born December 16, 1798, died October 9, 1878) ; 
they lived first in Charlestown, Va., then returned to Penn- 
sylvania, and remained there until their deaths. They had 
twelve children. 

i. Lucinda, born in Charlestown, Va., married 
Jan. I, 1846, the Hon. Ephraim Myers 
(born Sept. 29, 1823, died July 5, 1900.) 
He was a leading merchant in Littles- 
town, interested in the building of the Littles- 
town railroad, its President for twelve years, 
at which time the road was extended to Fred- 
erick, Md.; in 1861, elected County Commis- 
sioner; he w^as an ardent supporter of the 
Union cause. He was the founder of Mt. 
Carmel Cemetery, interested in the move- 
ment to incorporate the town, to start the Lit- 
tlestown Savings Institution, and a liberal 
giver to St. Paul's (Lutheran) Church. He 
was elected a member of the state Legislature, 



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1885-6. being the first Republican elected to 
this office in this county for 25 years. Mr. 
and Mrs. Myers have four children living, all 
married (surname Myers) : George B., of 
Baltimore (d. Nov. 5, 1903) Elizabeth, mar- 
ried C. p. Gettier. M. I)., and residing in Lit- 
tlestovvn; Sarah J., married to Geo. \V. Ston- 
er, M. D., Surgeon, United States Marine 
Hospital Service, residing in New York City; 
Harry, of Littlestown; Emma Lucinda, mar- 
ried Edmund Sindall, of New York City. 

ii. George IVilliam, married Leah Basehoar. 

iii. Susannah E., married October 22, 1846, 
James H. Colehouse (born, 1823; died 
1903.) For forty years he was engaged 
in business at Littlestown, conducting a gen- 
eral store. He served as Burgess and was 
also a charter member and stockholder of the 
Littlestown Savings Institution and a director 
and stockholder of the Littlestown Railroad, 
until that company was absorbed by the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad. Al)out 16 years ago, hav- 
ing retired from business, he moved to Han- 
over. Here he assisted to organize the Peo- 
ple's Bank, and served as an elder of St. Mark's 
Lutheran Church fi ir a term of years. He is 
survived by his wife, two sons — R. A. Cole- 
house, of Hanover, and \\\ H. Colehouse, of 
Littlestown, and one daughter, Mrs. George 
S. Kump, of Littlestown. 

iv. Lydia, born. 1828; died, April 15. 1903, mar- 
ried, Nov., 185 1, Jacob G. Basehoar, died, 
(1887;) their surviving children are: (sur- 
name Basehoar) Charles H., of Taneytown, 
Md.; Mrs. ATary C. Gitt. Mountjoy Tp., 



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Adams County; John B., of Union Tp., 
Adams Co., and Edward D., of Union Mills, 
Md. 
V. Catherine, married Rufus Duttera. 
vi. Sarah, married Isaiah Mehring. 
vii. Julia A., married, December 17, 1857, Levi T. 
Mehring; he lived on a farm in Carroll Co., 
Md., for eight years, then moved to Littles- 
town, Pa., and went into the hardware busi- 
ness; their children (surname Mehring) are: 
i. Flora B., married to Lewis W. Kobler 
and living in Philadelphia; they have five chil- 
dren (surname Kobler) Violet E., Prudence S., 
H. Bittinger, L. Jordy, Maurice M.; ii. Mary 
L.. married to Charles Kohler of Braintree, 
Mass. iii. Harry W., married Edith Dis- 
bro and lives in Waltham, Mass.; he has one 
daughter, Vinnie L. Mehring. iv. Daniel, 
married Mary Slifer and lives in Littlestown; 
they have two sons, Arnon L. and Herman S. 
V. Howard H.. married Bessie Howd, and 
lives in Hebronville, Mass. ; they have one son, 
Ernest L. 
viii. Simon, (dec'd) served in the Union Army, mar- 
ried Lavina Deardorff. 
ix. Belle, married to Samuel Study, of Tyrone, Pa. 
X. Alexander, died, aged seventeen, 
xi. Emma, (dec'd) married Augustus Crouse. 
xii. James Henry, deceased. 
XV. JOSEPH BAUGHER BITTINGER (Joseph4, 
Joseph3 Nicholas2, Adami) born March 30, 1823, died 
April 15, 1885, was a graduate of Pennsylvania College 
(1844) and of Andover Theological Seminary; for a short 
time principal of Abbott Academy, Andover, then professor 
of rhetoric in Middlebury (Vermont) College, pastor of the 



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Euclid Ave. Presbyterian church, Cleveland, O. (1853-62) 
and of the Sewickley Presbyterian church, Sewickley, Pa., 
until his death, (1864-85). He was an eloquent speaker 
and wrote a remarkably simple and forcible style; a list of 
his published writings is found in the "Pennsylvania (Col- 
lege Book." He was deeply interested in humanitarian 
movements, as the anti-slavery agitation (he was a "con- 
ductor" on the Underground Railroad in Cleveland) and 
afterwards in prison reform, being commissioned to rei)re- 
sent the State of Pennsylvania at the Prison Congresses of 
London and Stockholm. He was pronounced the best Bibli- 
cal scholar the Cleveland ministry ever had, but in spite of 
his studious tastes, he was a brilliant conversationalist, full 
of humor and knowledge, and deeply and affectionately 
interested in the welfare of his parishioners. He married. 
Dec. 23, 185 1, CATHERINE NACE FORNEY (born 
Nov. 10, 1828) who survives him; they have one child: 
Lucy Forney, who has prepared "Memorials" of her father, 
a "Plistory of the Forney Family of Hanover, Pa," was 
l)resi(lent of the Sewickley Valley Emergency Society dur- 
ing the Spanish war; has published "The Germans in 
Colonial Times" (Lippincott. 1900). "Prayers and 
Thoughts for the Use of the Sick" (Lippincott, 1902) and 
this history of the familv. 

XVL JOHN QUINCY BITTINGER (Joseph4, 
Josephs, Nicholas2, Adami,) born Mar. 20, 183 1. died April 
5, 1895, a graduate of Dartmouth College (1857) studied 
theology at Andover and was pastor of the Congregational 
churches of Yarmouth, Me.. St. Albans and Hartland. \'t.. 
and Haverhill. N. H. While at St. Albans his health failed 
from rheumatism, which caused him great pain and co^n- 
pelled him to sit; standing and walking being equally hard 
for him. "He was obliged to deliver his sermons sitting, but 
they were no less acceptable on this account. He was a fre- 
quent and valued contributor to the church periodicals and 



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to leading newspapers; and was for some years editor of the 
New Hampshire Journal. He also found time for the com- 
position of a history of Haverhill, (N. H.), a valuable con- 
tribution to local literature. His masterpiece was his 
"Plea for the Sabbath;" this was his last great effort. Dis- 
ease put new and heavier fetters upon him ; he was confined 
to his bed and for a year or two previous to his death was 
blind. Still he kept his interest in current events and to the 
last was as patient, trustful and heroic as in his prime. The 
earth has seldom closed over a braver, truer man than he." 
He married, Oct. 4, i860, at Hanover, N. H., SARAH 
JONES WAINWRIGHT, and they have four children: 
i. Frederick William, born April 28, 1864, graduated 
from Dartmouth College Class of 1886; married, 
Aug. 3, 1886, Lillian M. Ayer, of Pike Station, N. 
H. ; they have five children, Muriel Melissa, Fritz 
John, Philip Edward and Paul William (twins), and 
Katrina Wainwright. In partnership with his 
brother Joseph Francis he publishes the Old Colony 
Memorial at Plymouth, Mass. 
ii. Joseph Francis, born May 5, 1866; graduated from 
Dartmouth College, class of 1886; married, March 6, 
1889, Katherine Aubrey Teague, of Memphis, Tenn. ; 
they have three children; Marjorie V., Alene W., 
and Richard B. 
iii. Helen Katherine, born Aug. 3, 1870, married, July 30, 

1903, Guy Clifton Smith. 

iv. Charles Edzvard, born Nov. 3, 1874, married, 1899, 

Harriette S. Buck, of St. Albans, Vt. ; now foreman 

of a newspaper office in Bradford, Vt. 

HI. HENRY BEDINGER, (Adami) born 1730, died 

Jan, 22, 1772, was brought to this country at the age of 

seven and lived with his parents at the Homestead Farm, 

Adams Co., Pennsylvania, until he married, 1752, MARY 

MAGDALENA SCHLEGEL. His four eldest children 



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were born in Pennsylvania "on his own land near his father's 
residence; several died in infancy." In the spring of 1762 
he removed to Shepherdstown, Frederick (now Jefferson) 
Co., W. Va., a town then recently founded, under the name 
of Mecklenburg, by the Pennsylvania-German, Col. Shep- 
herd (Schaefer). Henry R. was naturalized at York, Pa., 
May 20, 1769. He became quite wealthy and l)iiilt himself 
a stone house on the south side of Shepherdstown, near two 
beautiful springs; he died at this homestead. His wife 
survived him some time; at her home was held. May 25, 
1775, the gathering of the Virginia riflemen, who. under the 
leadership of Hugh Stephenson, marched to the succor of 
Boston, where they preatly astonished the New-Englanders 
with their long rifles, their hunting-shirts and their unerring 
aim. Three of Henry B.'s sons. Henrv, George Michael 
and Daniel, enlisted in this company. Henry Bedinger and 
his wife had seven children who grew up: 
17. i. Henry, born Oct. 16. 1752. 

ii. Elizabeth, married Abel Morgan, who died 
young and left her a widow with four chil- 
dren. "She managed her household and 
farm with admirable prudence and success." 
writes her niece. Mrs. Edmund Lee. "her 
homestead was called Falling Spring. She 
was a grand-looking old lady, tall, straight 
and well-formed ; her teeth were very beauti- 
ful and perfect, her skin was spotless, and her 
features strongly marked and handsome. 
Her high, white cap. snowy kerchief of whit- 
est muslin laid in folds across her bosom. 
her black dress looking always fresh and un- 
sullied, and her refined and stately bearing 
impressed us children with the fact that she 
would brook no liberty. She spoke German 
in all its purity and perfection." The chil- 



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dren of Elizabeth B. and Abel Morgan were: 
i. Daniel, married Mary Lowrie; ii. Olivia, 
died unmarried; and two others. 
iii. Sally, married Abram Morjo-an (brother of Abel 
Morgan) ; early in the century they moved to 
Kentuckv, where their descendants now re- 
side. 

1 8. ■ iv. George Michael, born Dec. lo, 1756. 

V. Solomon, died unmarried previous to 1818. 

19. vi. Daniel, born 1760. 

vii. Jacob, born in Virginia. He owned two farms 
near Shepherdstown. one in Maryland, and 
the other just opposite in Virginia; on the 
latter, called "the Hermitage," he resided. 
He was in his >'OUth a very handsome man. 
He married Mildred Clark (see Sect. V) ; 
thev were childless. 
XVH. HENRY BEDINGER. (Henry2, Adami), 
born Oct. 16, 1752, died May 14, 1843, enlisted, June, 1775, 
in the Continental service in Hugh Stephenson's regiment 
of riflemen and was appointed sergeant before he left the 
recruiting rendezvous at Shepherdstown. He marched 
with his company to the relief of Boston, where they re- 
mained until July, 1776, when they were ordered to Bergen, 
N. J. ; there the troops were re-organized. Henry B. being 
appointed 2nd Lieutenant of his former companv, now com- 
manded by Capt. Abram Shepherd, Hugh Stephenson being 
made Colonel. Henry B.'s commission, signed by John 
Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, is in the 
possession of his grandson, Henry B. Davenport, of Charles- 
^Atown, W. Va. The entire regiment was captured, Nov. 16, 
1776, at Ft. Washington. The capture included Henry B. 
and his two brothers, George Michael and Daniel, who 
were privates in his company. The latter were soon re- 
leased, but Capt. Henry B. was held a prisoner on Long 



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Island four years, lacking sixteen days, having been re- 
leased Nov. I. 1780. Gen. Samuel Findley of Ohio, in a 
letter to Mr. DavenTX)rt, says that he, Nat. Pendleton of 
Virginia and Henry B. were all released from ])rison at the 
same time; they walked to Philadelphia, there bought a 
horse aiul mutually rode and walked from there to Rich- 
mond. Va. In 1781 Capt. Henry B. raised another com- 
pany, of which he was captain, and marched south to join 
the army, but on reaching Fredericksburg, he heard of Com- 
wallis's surrender. He remained in the army until it was 
disbanded, Nov. 3, 1783. He was one of the original mem- 
bers of the Cincinnati ; his diploma, signed by Washington, 
is in Mr. Davenport's possession. On leaving the army he 
became a merchant in Shepherdstown. In 1794 he was 
commissioned a major in the Virginia militia, and hence was 
called "Major B." In the same year he was a member of 
the legislature of Virginia. In 1800 he removed to Mar- 
tinsburg, having been elected Clerk of the Court, and resided 
in that vicinity until shortly before his death. He was very 
tall and soldierly in his bearing, extremely wealthy and 
hospitable. He married RACHEL STRODE, a daughter 
of Capt. James Strode, an officer under Lord Dunmore, the 
last royal governor of Virginia and a sister of Mrs. Col. 
Shepherd. Henry and Rachel (Strode) Bedinger had four 
daughters who grew up (beside two who died in infancy) : 
i. Nancy, married to her cousin, James Strode Swear- 
ingen (born Feb. 3, 1782. died Feb. 3, 1864). an 
army officer who served through the War 
of 1812, and who established the post of 
Ft. Dearborn, afterwards Chicago. After the 
close of the war. Col. and Mrs. S. resided at Chilli- 
cothe, O. She received from her father a tract 
of land in Pickaway Co.. O., called the "Bed- 
inger Tract." on which some of her descendants 
still reside. A full account of them will be found 



in the "Family Re^ster of Gerrit Van Swearingen 
and Descendants." 

ii. Sally, born 1790, died unmarried, 1840. 

iii. Elizabeth, married Braxton Davenport, of Virginia. 

iv. Maria, married Col. Samuel Miller, of the Marine 
Corps, (see "Hamersley's Navy Register, Marine 
Corps," p. 693.) They left one daughter, Maria, 
married to Frank Peters, son of the reporter to the 
U. S. Supreme Court. She inherited from her 
mother "Protumna," Maj. B.'s homestead. 



XVIII. GEORGE MICHAEL BEDINGER (Plenry^ 
Adami) born in Penn., Dec. 10, 1756, died at the Blue Lick 
Springs, December 7, 1843; was named for his father's 
brother, who was his sponsor. He was taken to Virginia 
when a child. George Michael Bedinger served with the 
Virginia riflemen in the seige of Boston, then became a 
courier to Gen. Washington. In an account, in his own 
handwriting, of his military experiences, he said : "When 
Capt. Wm. Morgan's company got to Philadelphia, which I 
think was about the first of January, 1777, I found my 
brother Daniel, with a few others of those soldiers who 
had been taken with him at Fort Washington, all of them 
sick and so much reduced that I think few of them ever got 
well. I took him a few miles out of the city to a Quaker's 
house, where I left him until he should be able to be hauled 
home. Next day, I think, I overtook our company of rifle- 
men. Our company had voluntarily entered the service for 
three months. Gen. Washington by a messenger of the 
company had requested us to stay eight days longer, and as 
our captain was then absent, I spoke to the men, pressing 
them upon their honor not to leave us, which the most of 
them complied with. In that three months time we were 



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stationed near the enemy's quarters and kept them from pil- 
laging and foraging as far as we were ahle. In New Jer- 
sey in the winter of 'yy, early in March, we had a sharp the' 
short conflict with the enemy, which was called the hattle of 
Piscataway; under the command of Col. (Chas.) Winston, 
where we were overpowered hy a vastly superior number." 
Shortly after the time when this fragment ends, his grand- 
son, the Rev. Dr. Bedinger says: "My grandfather after 
his term of service had expired was employed by the Gover- 
nor of Virginia to take some recruits to Gen. Clarke, then 
in command at Louisville. Kentucky. He came to Ken- 
tucky, and while there Bowman's expedition against the 
Indians at old Chillicothe. (Xenia, Ohio) was undertaken. 
They crossed the river at the mouth of the Licking where 
Cincinnati now stands, — there was nothing there then. — and 
went out to Xenia. Grandfather was made Adjutant, and 
Gen. Bnwm.'in was leader, his plan being to attack the In- 
dians in camj) from three quarters, one in command of 
Logan, another under Bowman, and a third under my 
grandfather. Grandfather was to take a squad of eight 
men and secrete himself, and when the attack was made by 
the other parties, to begin firing from ambush. He took 
his men and hid there close to the Indian council house be- 
hind a fallen tree — he waiting expecting the attack to be 
made, until tlie day began to break. He had heard the In- 
dian dogs barking, and saw runners starting out to the 
other Indian towns. After it got to be broad daylight. Col. 
Bowman rode u]> within hearing distance and called to him 
that their plans had failed, that the command was disorgan- 
ized, and he could do nothing for him. he would have to 
get away the best he could. The Indians had gathered in 
the council house and were watching to shoot them down. 
One man raised up and was immediately killed. — a bullet 
through his brain ; another put his cap on a stick and raised 
it above the log, and it received two or three bullets. My 



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grandfather then said, 'the only hope is for all to jump at 
once and get away as fast as we can, don't run in a straight 
line, but go zig-zag so they can't take aim. I will give the 
word, now', and he gave the v/ord and sprang, going as he 
said, zig-zag, and escaped unhurt. After he had drawn the 
fire the other men jumped up and ran off without being shot 
at. When he reached Col. Bowman, the Col. told him 
their plans had failed because the men had come across some 
horses and each man began to sieze horses and broke ranks, 
and the officers could not control them, and he could do noth- 
ing with them. The Col. appealed to him, if he could do 
anything, to do it. Grandfather called a number of the 
men together and told them, Tt is not a question of how 
much we can get, but a question of our lives. The Indians 
are gathering in force there, and I saw them send off runners 
to other towns, and in a little while there will be an over- 
powering force of Indians about us ; the only hope is to get 
back to the river as fast as ever we can, and we must obey 
orders or all will be killed.' The men saw the reasonable- 
ness of it, and they organized. Forming a hollow square 
in which they put the wounded and horses, they started on 
their retreat. The Indians followed closely and fought 
through the day without making very great progress. 
When night came on the Indians from other towns were 
about them and they heard the voice of the chief, urging 
them forward and directing how they could attack. My 
recollection is this chief was 'Cornstalk.' My grandfather 
said, 'unless we can kill that man we are lost.' A number 
volunteered to attack where they could hear his voice, and 
they succeeded in wounding or killing him. That disor- 
ganized the Indians, and the men struck out for the river 
and reached the Ohio a little after daylight. They got in 
boats, and swimming their horses which they had captured, 
they got to the middle of the river, and saw the Indians 
swarming on the bank; but they were out of rifle shot. I 



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remenil)er a story of his going with a single man, and as 
he was travelHng along in front he heard a gun click as the 
man cocked it. and distrusting his companion he sprang one 
side, and as he did so the gun went ofif and missed him. The 
man claimed that it went off accidentally; Ijut he took the 
gim from him and marched him in front until they came to 
a settlement." He is said to have served as major at 
the Battle of the Blue Licks, but his grandson, Rev. Dr. E. 
\\'. l^>edinger, rememl^ers that his grandfather took him up 
behind him on his horse and showed him the battlefield and 
that Major Bedinger said he himself was not present at the 
battle, but arrived on the scene next day and helped to rally 
the men. On Christmas day. 1786, he married NANCY 
KANE, daughter of New-ton Kane, of Virginia; she died 
shortly after the birth of her daughter, Sarah. George 
Michael B. served as major in Darke's Regiment in 1791 and 
commanded the Winchester battalion of sharpshooters on the 
disastrous expedition of St. Clair, the same year. Major 
B. also commanded the 3rd Sub-Legion of U. S. Lifantry, 
from April, 1792, to Feb., 1793, and became a member of the 
State House of Representatives in 1795. In 1792 he 
met and married, at the Blue Lick Springs, of which he was 
then the owner. HENRIETTA CLAY, of Kentucky; she 
was a cousin of the statesman and the tenth child of Henry 
Clay, M. D., Jr.. and his wife, Rachel Povall. of Mecklenburg 
Co., \"a., and afterwards of Bourbon Co., Ky. Her father 
opposed the marriage, not liking the appearance of Maj. 
Bedinger at his house in uniform. Henrietta Clay had made 
herself a homespun wedding dress. She made this into a 
bundle, threw it out of the window, and Maj. Bedinger wait- 
ing below on horseback, then got out herself and they eloped, 
she riding behind her bridegroom. After the wedding, !SIaj. 
Bedinger and his body servant built a log cabin for the bride 
to live in. George M. B. was elected a re|)resentative 
from Kentucky to the Vlllth Congress and re-elected 



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to the IXth, serving from Oct. 17, 1803, to March 3, 
1807; this was the period of the famous 'Embargo," 
which was so disastrous to our commerce; Major B. was de- 
feated for re-election on account of his opposition to this 
measure. A night session, then a very unusual thing, was 
called to pass the act, thinking its opponents could not attend. 
Maj. Bedinger got wind of it, came and opened his speech 
by saying, ''What means this gathering in such unseemly 
haste, under cover of darkness ? Is it that you propose that 
which will not bear the light?" He went on to deliver a 
scathing speech. When he finished, John Randolph of 
Roanoke rose and said in his peculiar squeaky voice, "I am 
glad to see there is one honest man in this 
house." Rev. Dr. Bedinger says, "My grandfather 
came down to deliver the address at the laying of the 
cornerstone of the Observatory in Cincinnati, and John 
Quincy Adams was there also. Grandfather rode down on 
horseback from the Blue Licks, and I think he was then 84 
years old. They started from Morgan Springs 
to Boston, the company agreeing that whoever was 
alive fifty years from that time should come to that spring 
and have a reunion. My grandfather was living in Ken- 
tucky, but he rode in on horseback, then 68 years old. They 
had a great barbecue, he there met his brother Henry, they 
being the only survivors who were able to be present, and 
I think there was but one other living." "He was," 
says his great-grandson, Daniel Lucas B., "a sin- 
gularly modest and retiring man, who had become so 
much disgusted at the self-laudation and advertisement of 
some of his contemporaries and colleagues, that he 
never made an attempt to make a permanent record of his 
individual adventures. There was once presented to Con- 
gress a memorial on his behalf, setting forth in detail his 
various public services and deeds of heroism, but what be- 
came of it I have never been able to learn." His greatgrand- 



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daugliter. Olivia Morgan Bedinger says: "He had black 
hair and blue eyes, was nc^t unduly tall." In his extreme 
old age Maj. B. addressed to the people of Kentucky a broad- 
side advocating an amendment of the state constitution 
abolishing slavery; he said: "I am a citizen of Bourbon 
County, Kentucky. I am by profession a farmer, and have 
no other means of supporting my family. I occupy a mid- 
dle station in society, being neither very rich nor very poor. 
I have lived within a few years of a century. And though 
a friend of morality, piety and religion, I have never at- 
tached myself to any denomination of religious professors. 
I entertain a fixed belief in the existence, and rej'^ice in the 
omnipotence of an overruling Providence of infinite good- 
ness who delights in justice as he does in mercy, and frowns 
upon injustice and oppression, and all manner of wickedness. 
Avd as a rule by which to govern my conduct through life, 
I admire, yes, I love, the Christian precept that direct us to 
do unto others as we would have them do unto us. I hold 
no office; I seek none. With this brief notice of myself I 
proceed with the subject in contemplation. 

Yes, you are ready 
to say our imaginations are often visited bv these 
melancholy reflections. They engage our serious thoughts 
by day; and they haunt our dreams by night. We see the 
evil; we feel the evil; we dread the evil. We look upon its 
disastrous consequences with the same terror and the same 
certainty that we do upon death. And like death, we have 
hitherto in our hopes placed their arrival at a distance. But 
we now begin to feel that their approach is near. We see 
it in the fanatic abolitionism of the north; and ii, the reck- 
less nullification of the south. On either side wc know by 
the smoke and dust that fill the atmosphere that a storm is 
gathering which threatens to burst with all its horror upon 
this ill-fated land." Miss Olivia M. Bedinger says: "The 
convention was called. He was himself a member, but it 



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left the clauses relating to slavery unchanged. I know noth- 
ing concerning his feelings on the matter. At his death, 
which took j^lace shortly afterward, he endeavored to carry 
out his ideas with reference to his own slaves" — by gradual 
emancipation and colonization in Liberia. Brief mention is 
made of him in Collins' History of Kentucky; also in Apple- 
ton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, p. 215, and a more 
extended account of some of his experiences in a History of 
Kentucky, by Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, pp. 167 and seq. 
(Louisville, Ky., 1887). By his first marriage with Nancy 
Kane, Major George Michael B. had one daughter. 

i. Sarah Kane, died July, 1822, married John Bedford; 

she had a daughter, who married Coleman, 

lived near Colemansville, Ky., and afterwards re- 
moved to Missouri. 

The children of George Michael and Henrietta Clay 
B. were: 
ii. Henry Clay, born Nov. 24, 1793, died about 1850, 
married, first, Lavinia Drake (died May 18, 1822), 
daughter of Dr. Drake, the most prominent phy- 
sician of Cincinnati in early times. She left one 
daughter; i. Lavinia, married to George William 
Ranson; Henry Clay B- married, second, Judith 
Singleton, and they had three children : ii. Sarah, 

married, first, Parker, second, Dr. Ellis, 

and lived in Missouri; iii. Henry Clay, born Sept. 
5, 1832, married. May 22, 1857, in Missouri, 
Susan Ellsworth Washington (now dead), he now 
lives in Portales, N. Mex., they have had eight chil- 
dren : George Washington, born Feb. 28, 1858; Lil- 
lian Thornton, born Dec. 25, 1859; Emma Bird, 
born Feb. 23, 1862, died Aug. 25, 1878; Susan 
Augusta, born June 14, 1867; Henry Clay, born 
Sept. 18, 1869; Solomon Singleton, born Oct. 3, 
1871; Eleanor Lawrence, born Dec. 26, 1873, died 



Oct. 7, 1874; Mildred Berry, born July 8, 1876; 
iv. Solomon Singleton, died Feb. 8, 1873, mar- 
ried Mildred Berry Washington, they had five 
children: Henrietta Gray, born Nov. 17, 1854; 
Lavinia,born May 29, 1S57, married Edward Henry 
Morrell; Henry Clay, born Sept. 23, 1859, married 
U. S. Meeks; Arthur Singleton, born March 7, 1862, 
died Nov. 9, 1869; Singleton Berry, born Nov. 7, 
1 87 1. They reside in Texas, Arkansas and Miss- 
issippi, 
iii. Daniel Paine, born March 18, 1795, died about 1865, 
married, April 20, 1826, Letitia Clay, his first 
cousin, she being the daughter of Henry, third son 
of Henry Clay, M. D., Jr. They had one daugh- 
ter, i. Olivia, married Richard Lindsay, leaving three 
children (surname Lindsay) : Rosa, married Wil- 
liam Buckner, of Paris, Ky. ; Frank, of Blue Lick 
Springs, Ky., a widower with two sons surviving; 
Elizabeth, married Asa Lewis, of Blue Lick Springs, 
Ky. Daniel P. Bedinger married second, June i, 
1854. Anna E. Ranson, who survives him. residing 
at Blue Lick Springs, Ky. 
20. iv. Benjamin Franklin, born June 14. 1797. 

V. Elizabeth Morgan, born Dec. 30, 1798, died ; 

married, Jan. 29, 1824. Robt. Bedford. "Betsey 
Bedinger," as she was called, read the Encyclopedia 
Brittanica through, her father having the only copy 
in Kentucky at that time, and was considered a mar- 
vel of erudition. She tried to educate her only 
child, Robert, Jr., in the same way, but he had no in- 
tellectual taste, so she said she "would gild him," 
and made a good deal of money for him; but his 
marriage disappointed her; she felt herself neglected 
by her brothers in her last illness, and so she left all 
her wealth to the Common School Fund of the 
state. Her son died childless. 



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vi. Solomon, born March lo, 1801, d. s. p. April 12, 1828. 
vii. Olivia Morgan, born April 6, 1803, died 1823, married 
Henry Clay, brother of Letitia Clay (Mrs. Daniel 
P. Bedinger) ; Olivia Clay had one child, which died 
the same year as herself, 
viii. George Michael, Jr., born March 8, 1805, died Sept. 
5, 1833, married, April 24, 1828, Lucy V. Throck- 
morton; they had one child, Frank, who died un- 
married, 
ix. Joseph Morgan, born Feb. i, 1810, died July 14, 1890, 
married, Sept. 5, 1833, Nancy Moore. Their chil- 
dren, with the exception of Anna E., who lives at 
Erlanger, are residents in and around Bloomington, 
111. They are William H., Joseph P., Mary M. 
(Mrs. Reeves) ; Henrietta and Benjamin Franklin, 
Jr., are dead. 
X. Henrietta P., born Oct. 30, 1819, d. s. p. June 20, 

1833. 
XX. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BEDINGER, born 
June. 17Q7, died SqDtember 7, 1872, married June, 29, 
1820, Sarah Everett, daughter of David Everett Wade, one 
of the early emigrants from New Jersey to Cincinnati. 
Benjamin Franklin B.'s name was selected for him by his 
uncle Jacob, who at first wanted the child given his name. 
George Michael Bedinger objected that the patriarch 
Jacob was not a good man, the uncle then suggested George 
Washington, but the father said. President Washington 
was good and great, but still living and there was no know- 
ing what he might do. To thisjacob Bedinger replied by 
advising that the child be named Benjamin Franklin, as 
he combined all the virtues, "'he was good, was great and 
he was dead." Benjamin Franklin Bedinger studied medi- 
cine, but never practiced, much to the disappointment of 
his connectioii. Dr. Drake, who had a high opinion of his 
talents. Dr. Bedinger was much interested in poHtics, 



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tho he never took office, in pursuance of a promise made to 
his wife. He was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and his 
son ( E. W. B.) was present at an interview with Lincoln 
at Bloomingdale, 111., in 1858, in which Dr. Beding-er 
warned the future president of the probable consequences 
of his political course. His son. Rev. Dr. B. says: "He 
was very active in getting the charter of the Covington- 
Lexington Turnpike Co. He was ever desirous of good 
roads and was president of the company for many years at 
different times, and connected with it as a director as long 
as he lived. He was raised under Deistical influences, a 
great reader and had at his tongue's end all the arguments 
against the Christian religion; but he was urged to investi- 
gate the claims of the Christian religion, and the Bible as 
a revelation from God, and after many years' careful study 
he became convinced that the Bible was God's word, and 
when he was about 63 years old he made a profession of re- 
ligion and united with the Presbyterian church at Rich- 
wood, Boone county, and was afterward made an elder. 
My father on his death bed called to him his sons who were 
not members of the church, and said, "My sons, I don't 
know whether you believe the Bible to be God's word or 
not. ]f you do, you are guilty of great sin in not obeying 
it. If you do not I beg you to investigate it careful Iv for 
I am sure you will find it is." This was just a few hours 
before he died. Miss Olivia Bedinger describes the family 
of Dr. Bedinger and says: "The numerous sons, though 
by no means over- strenuous, and averse to blacking their 
own boots or saddling their own horses, were not alcove 
working with their own hands; my father, though bred to 
the law, was a skillful cheese-maker. You will readily 
perceive that my grandfather's financial interest in slavery 
was but small. He had imbibed his father's emancipation 
ideas, and w-as much disliked by his neiglibors for his aboli- 
tionism. When one of his men. Humphrey R.. married 



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a woman belonging to a neighbor named C, my grand- 
father offered to buy her; C. refused to sell her, to an ab- 
olitionist. During the war Humphrey was drafted and 
came in terror to "Marse Franklnv promising that he would 
stay and work for him always if he would only get him off. 
Dr. B. purchased a substitute for him at a cost of $i,ooo. 
Humphrey forthwith left for Ohio, where I frequently saw 
him when 1 was a child. I remember my grandfather 
waking my wonder by saying he never regretted anything 
he had done for Humphrey. Notwithstanding his anti- 
slavery principles. Dr. B. and his sons went completely and 
thoroughly with the South." Miss Bedinger says of the 
Kentucky branch of the family : "They are a large race, 
most of the men exceed six feet, and the women are in 
proportion. They have a fair average of intelligence, many 
are college graduates, and nearly all have had at least a 
high school course. None are distinguished; most are 
honest and sober. Most of the present generation are or- 
thodox in religion ; many are puritanical, the puritanism 
coming in with the Wade blood. A few are inclined to 
agnosticism, a few indifferent, a few cranks." 
Their children are: 
i. George Michael, Jr., born May 19, 1826, married 
September 3. 1850, Hannah More Fleming, (born 
October 31, 1831) and lives in California; their chil- 
dren are: Sarah Everett, b. June 29, 1851, libra- 
rian of the Beale Memorial Library, Bakersfield, 
California; Eleanor Fleming, b. August 20, 1853, 
d. September 16, 1875; George Michael, b. October 
21, 1856, d. June 26, 1883; Olivia Morgan, b. Feb. 
23, 1859, a teacher in the public schools, Kern Co., 
California; Lavinia, b. October 11, 1861, m., June 
II, 1896, Alfred Wm. Bannister; they have three 
children; Henry Arnold, b. July 22, 1897, George 
Richmond, August 19, 1898, d. January 22, 1901,. 



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and Alfred William, b. November 9, 1903: Thomas 
Fleming-, b. November 20. 1863, d. January 2, 1864; 
Benjamin Franklin, b. October 19, 1865, a rancher 
at Bakersfield; Alexander Porter, b. August 11, 
1869, d. September 3, 1895; J">ia, b. July 12, 1872, 
owner and manager of a dairv herd at Bakersfield. 

ii. Olivia Morgan, married, first. Todd, second. 

George William Ranson, the u^idower of her cousin. 
Lavinia B. (see above). She is dead, one son sur- 
vives her, Geo. William Ranson, Jr., of Rich wood, 
Ky. 

hi. Everett Wade, P. D., a graduate of Yale, class of 
'51; was ordained to the Presbvterian min- 
istry, 1857, preached at Paris and Richwood. Ky., 
during the Civil War. had nianv thrilling exper- 
iences, went to Canada when the Union forces took 
possession of the state, then returned, got through 
the lines and took his family to Virginia; was chap- 
lain to the i8th N. C. Regt. while it was at Gordons- 
ville and Shepherdstown, Va. ; after the war minis- 
tered at Erlanger and Anchorage. Ky., then chair- 
man of the committee for evangelistic work 
nt the Synod of Kentucky, and now (1903) 
doing home-missionary work in the mountains of 
Alabama. His interesting reminiscences mav be 
found in the "History of the ( Vale) class of 1851," 
printed for the class. Bo?tr»n. 1893. He married 
Sally Eleanor Lucas, (d. July. 1867). daughter of 
William Lucas and Virginia Bedinger of "Rion 
Hall," Charlestown, W. Va. (see Section xxi.) their 
children are: Virginia. wIk^ was married to Rev. J. 
Harry Moore, resided at Washington, Ky., and died 
childless; l\e\. B. Franklin, married first Mattie 
Piatt, second, Mary Snow, has seven sons and one 
daughter, and lives at Hampden-Sidney, Va. : Rev. 



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Wm. Lucas, married Mary Young, has one daugh- 
ter and resides at W. Appomatox, Va. ; Everett 
Wade, Jr., married Laura B. Brooke, has six daugh- 
ters living, and resides at Anchorage, Ky. ; he is the 
author of Bedinger's Digest of West Va. Supreme 
Court Reports, and has done editorial work in 
Charlestown and Roanoke, Va.; George Michael, 
married first Josephine Blandon, and second, Lucy 
Blandon, lives at Adriance, Mich.; Daniel Lu- 
cas, for twelve years U. S. Pension Examiner, now 
practising law in Louisville, married to Eleanor 
Campbell (dec'd) and has one child, Josephine; 
Sarah Everett, a Presbyterian missionary at Monte 
Morales, Mexico. Dr. Bedinger married second, 
Anna Moore Bilmyer of Shepherdstown; of their 
six children, Myra Van Doren, a graduate of Bryn 
Mawr. is teaching at the Bryn Mawr preparatory- 
school, Baltimore; Anna Moore, also a graduate of 
Bryn Mawr, teaching at Red Springs, N. C. ; Kath- 
arine Conrad and Olivia Morgan, at Bellwood Sem- 
inary, Anchorage, Ky.. and Henry Garrett is a stu- 
dent at the State University, Columbia, Mo., and 
John Van Doran at Princeton. 

iv. Daniel, (dec'd). 

v. David (dec'd). 

vi. Benjamin F., Jr., (dec'd). The last three married 
daughters of Bradbury and Harriet Cilley of Ven- 
ice, O. 



XIX. DANIEL BEDINGER, (Henry^. Adami) born 
1760, died, March 17, 1 818. He ran away from his home 
at Shepherdstown in the summer of 1776 to join the patriot 
army, was taken prisoner at the Brandywine and treated with 



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great harsb.ness. Once "on the occurrence of some difficulty 
between himself and the officer havin^e^ him in charge, who 
demanded who the impertinent young rebel was, he replied, 
'I am, sir, a soldier, a Virginian and a gentleman.' He was 
detained a prisoner of war until the British army evacuated 
Philadelphia, in the summer of 1778, when he was left, as 
was supposed, in a dying condition, in a miserable hospital. 
There his brother, George Michael, found him. Overcome 
by his feelings, Michael knelt by the side of the poor, emaci- 
ated boy, took him in his arms and bore him to a house 
where he could i)rocure some comforts in the way of food, 
etc. After this he got an armchair, two pillows and some 
leather straps; he placed his suffering charge in the chair, 
supported by the pillows, swung him by the leather straps 
on his back and carried him some miles into the country, 
where he found a friendly asylum in a farm-house. There 
he nursed him until he partially recovered strength. 
After Daniel was exchanged, he rejoined the army 
and served through the remainder of the war, 
participating in many engagements; he continued in 
active service until the dismission of the army in South 
Carolina in 1783. He reached the rank of Lieutenant. His 
certificate of membership in the Society of the Cincinnati, 
bearing the signature of Washington and the date of Mount 
Vernon, March i, 1787, is now in the possession of the Rev. 
Henry Bedinger. He was familiarly called "Major" B. 
After the Revolution he opened a bookstore in Norfolk, Va. 
In April, 1791, he was married to SARAH RUTHER- 
FORD, daughter of the Hon. Robert R., (a native of Vir- 
ginia, of Scotch descent, and a relative of the mother of 
Sir Walter Scott; he was a very wealthy man, had served 
several terms in Congress, and was married to the widow '^f 
a brother of Lord Howe). In 1802 "Major" B. was 

appointed by President Jefferson, Navy Agent at Norfolk, 
holding the position until 1808. His health failing, and 



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having accumulated a small fortune, he returned to Shep- 
herdstown, where he built his residence "Bedford." Its 
portico was supported by four large pillars, the caps and 
bases of which were made from the broken masts of the old 
warship, Constitution; this house was burnt by the Federal 
troops during the Civil War. Daniel B. died early from a 
disease of the lungs, the effect of his long imprisonment. 
His daughter, Mrs. Lee, says of him : "He was a cultivated, 
refined, Virginia gentleman, genial, kind and witty, with a 
high and delicate sense of honor." His grandson, Col. 
Thornton Washington, wrote: "I can state of my own 
knowledge that Daniel B. was long remembered and referred 
to by his associates as a superior order of man; he was en- 
dowed with a versatile and varied genius as a writer." The 
children of Daniel and Sarah (Rutherford) Bedinger were 
thirteen in number, as follows : 

i. Margaret Rutherford, born in Norfolk, Va., 
Jan. 30, 1792, died at "Bedford," May 10, 
1 8 19, married Dr. Seth Belfield Foster, De- 
cember 1 1, 1808. 
21. ii. Elisabeth Conrad, born in Norfolk, 1793. 

iii. Benjamin Franklin, born in Norfolk, 1795, died 

in Shepherdstown, 1799. 
iv. Robert, born in Norfolk, 1795, died there 1797. 
v. Sarah Eleanor, born in Norfolk, 1798, died at 

"Bedford," 1816. 
vi. Mary, born at "Bedford," May 5, 1800, died at 
Bedford, April 4, 1825, married April 29, 
18 19, John Love Bryan, 
vii. Susan Peyton, born at "Bedford," May 20, 1802, 
died at Woodbury, Conn., August 31, 1871. 
She married, May 17, 1826, Frederick Ells- 
worth, (d. at Frederick, Md., June 7, 1827), 
and, second. Rev. N. E. Cornwall, 
viii. Daniel, born in Gosport, Va., March 25, 1804, 



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died at "Bedford," May. 1839. In 1837 he 
married Katherine H. Berry. 

ix. Eleanor Sarah, lx)rn at Gosport, 1806, died at 
"Cedarlawn," 1821. 

X. Virginia Ann, born at Suffolk, Va., April 8, 
1808, died at Charlestown. W. Va., Decem- 
ber, 1839. She was married July 30. 1830, 
to the Hon. William Lucas (died. 1877), who 
represented his district in Congress for two 
terms. Their daug-hter, Sally, married 
Everett Wade Beding^er, D. D.. a grandson of 
George Michael B. (See Section XX.) 
Their son, Daniel Bedinger Lucas, Judge of 
the Supreme Court of Appeals (W^ Va.), 
distinguished as a jurist and a j^oet, has pub- 
lished among other things, ''The Wreath of 
Eglantine," containing also poems of his sis- 
ter Virginia. His best known poem is "The 
Land where we were Dreaming," written 
after the surrender; these are its concluding 
verses : 

"As wakes the soldier when the alarum calls, 

As wakes the mother when the infant falls, 
As starts the traveller when armnid 
His sleeping couch the fire bells sound — 

So woke our nation with a single hound 

In the land where we were dreaming. 

Woe! woe is me! the startled mother cried, 
While we have slept our noble sons have died ! 

Woe! woe is me! How strange and sad 

That all our glorious vision 's fled 
And left us nothing real but the dead^ 
In the land where we were dreaming!" 

xi. Henrietta, b. Feb. 7. 1810. d. Oct. 7. 1898, m. 
September 7, 1835. to Edmund Jennings Lee, 
2nd. (d. 1877). son of E. J. Lee of Alexan- 
dria. Va.. and grandson of Richard Henry 
Lee. and a cousin of Gen. Robert Lee. "She 



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was gifted with fine intellect, clear judgment, 
abounding wit and sparkling vivacity. But 
above all other characteristics, she was dis- 
tinguished for her humble devoted godliness. 
In all relations of life she was admirable, tend- 
erly beloved; her own children and her step- 
children called her blessed. The difficult du- 
ties and responsibilities devolving on the mis- 
tress of a numlier of slaves, were met by Mrs. 
Lee with Christian fidelity and good sense. 
All the negroes in her household were col- 
lected every evening in her private sitting 
room for family prayers; Sunday afternoon 
was given up to a Sunday-school for them, 
and all others who wished to attend. This 
school was continued some years after they 
ceased to be slaves. At 'Bedford' Mrs. Lee 
passed three lonely years, during the war, her 
two oldest sons being in the Confederate 
army, and her husband a refugee; in 1864 
'Bedford' was burned by the Federal troops, 
leaving Mrs. Lee and her children homeless 
and well nigh destitute. A small home was 
built, 'Leeland,' where she was the friend, the 
counselor and comforter of the whole com- 
m,unity." As the last survivor of this large 
familv. we are indebted to her for the preser- 
vation of much family tradition, which would 
otherwise have been lost. Her eldest son, 
Gen. Edwin G. d. 1870, a victim of the hard- 
ships and exposure of the Civil War. Her 
second son. Edmund L, d. 1897. She is sur- 
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Dr. Chas. W. 
Goldsborough and Mrs. Ida L. Rust, and one 
son, the Rev. H. B. Lee. 



22. xii. Henry, born 1812. 

xiii. Edwin Gray, born at "Bedford," 1814, died 
1835. by a fall from his horse. 
XXI. ELIZABETH CONRAD BEDINGER, (Dan- 
iel, Henry2, Adami) born Sept. 27, 1793, died Oct. 31, 
1837. married, September 2, 1808, JOHN THORNTON 
AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON (born Mav 20, 1783, died 
Oct. 7, 1 84 1.) He was the eldest great-grandson of Col. 
Samuel Washington, President Washington's eldest full 
brother. John T. A. Washington's descendants are, there- 
fore, the nearest relatives of the "Father of his Country." 
John T. A. W. served in the war of 181 2, and was also in 
the Virginia legislature. He resided at "Cedarlawn," Jef- 
ferson Co., West Virginia. His children were: (surname 
Washington. ) 

i. Lawrence Berry, born November 26, 181 1, d. s. p., 

September 21, 1856. 
ii. Daniel Bcdinger, born February 14, 181 4, died De- 
cember 28, 1887, married October 24, 1843, Lucy 
Ann (Washington) Wharton. 
iii. Virginia Thornton, born May 22, 1816, d. s. p., No- 
vember 13, 1838. 
iv. Sally Eleanor, born April 7, 18 18. d. s. p., January 

21, 1858. 
V. Benjamin Franklin, born April 7, 1820, died Jan- 
uary 22, 1872. married Georgiana Hite Ransone. 
vi. George Anna Augusta, born March 3, 1822, married 

November 20. 1851, John W. Smith. 
vii. Mary Elizabeth, born March 4. 1824, married. Aug- 
ust 17. 1858, Squire Asbury. 
viii. Thornton Augustin, born January 22, 1826. died 
1894, married March 8. i860. Olive Ann Jones. 
Col. Washington, who served on Crcneral Lee's 
staff during the Civil War. prepared for family 
circulation an admirable account of that branch of 



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the Washington family, the descendants of Col. 
Samuel Washington, to which he belonged. The 
pamphlet also contains full and admirably accurate 
histories of the descendants of' John T. A. and 
Elizabeth (Bedinger) Washington. 
ix. Mildred Berry, born September 3, 1827, died in in- 
fancy. 
X. Mildred Berry, born March 8, 1829, died November 
8, 1 87 1, married February 8, 18^4, Solomon 
Singleton Bedinger (died February 8, 187?). He 
was a grandson of George Michael B., under which 
section further information may be seen. 
xi. George, born December 9, 1830, died November 20, 
1890, married April 11, 1871, Mary Virginia 
Dempsey. He served in the Confederate Army. 
xii. Susan Ellszvorth, born April i, 1833, married May 
22, 1857, Henry C. Bedinger, also a grandson of 
George M. B. 
xiii. Henrietta Gray, born September 10, 1835, died in 
childhood. 
XXn. HENRY BEDINGER (Daniel3. Henrys 
Adami) b. near Shepherdstown, W. Va., Feb. 3, 1812, d. 
November 26, 1859, received a classical education, practised 
law in Shepherdstown, and afterwards in Charlestown, W. 
Va. ; in 1845 he succeeded his partner and brother-in-law, 
A. T. M. Rust, as member of Congress, where he repre- 
sented Virginia, 1845-49, and was distinguished for his 
eloquence as a debater. In 1853 he was appointed United 
States minister to Denmark, and while at Copenhagen he 
negotiated a treaty which settled the question of the Sound 
dues. His daughter, Mrs. Dandridge, writes : "My father 
died of pneumonia caught at a political barbecue; he made 
a speech with uncovered head, took cold and died in a few 
days. He was a very genial man and greatly beloved by 
all who knew him. He wrote verse and repeated poetry 



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beautifully; was very literary in his tastes and upright, 
honorable and spotless in his political career." A sketch of 
his life may be found in Appleton's Cyclopedia of American 
Biography, p. 215. He married, June 5, 1839, MAR- 
GARET RUST, daughter of Gen. George Rust. She died 
May 21, 1843. They had three children: 
i. Virginia, married to H. B. Michie, a lawyer of Staun- 
ton. Va. 
ii. George Rust, a Captain in the Confederate service, 
killed at the battle of Gettysburg (1863). far in 
advance of the company, and his body was never 
recovered, 
iii. Margaret, died in infancy. 

August 17, 1847, the Hon. Henry B. married CARO- 
LINE BOW'NE LAWRENCE, daughter of Hon. John W. 
Lawrence, of Flushing, L. L Their children are : 
i. Mary, born at "Bedford," near Shepherdstown. Aug- 
ust, 1850, died March 22. 1896. married John F. 
B. Mitchell of Flushing. L. I., by whom she had 
four children. She was very gifted and very 
beautiful; she wrote for Scribner, Century and 
other magazines under the pen-name of "Maria 
Blunt." 
ii. Henry, born July 21. 1853. ^^ Flushing, educated at 
the University of Virginia and the New York 
Theological Seminary. He is a clergyman of 
the Episcopal Church, living in Salem, Mass. He 
is married to Ada Doughty, of L. L, and has three 
children living, 
iii. Danske, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, while her 
father was United States minister there; married, 
1877, Hon. A. S. Dandridge, of Jefferson Co., W. 
Va. ; they have three children: (surname Dan- 
ridge) i. Violet, born March 15. 1878; ii. Stephen, 
born July 29, 1879; "'• Dorothea Spottiswoode, 



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born January 29, 1896. Mrs. Dandridge has col- 
lected her poems into two volumes, "Joy" and 
"Rose-Brake," which have been highly commended 
by critics such as Howells, Louise Chandler Moul- 
ton and Whittier, who signed himself "Thy aged 
friend," and said, "Sing on, there are those who 
love to hear thee." Mrs. Dandridge's best known 
poem is that written on Good Friday, 1898, just 
before the war with Spain, and entitled, "On the 
Eve of War." 

O God of Battles, who art still 

The God of Love, the God of Rest, 
Subdue thy people's fiery will, 

And quell the passions in their breast! 

Before we bathe our hands in blood, 
We lift them to thy Holy Rood. 

The waiting nations hold their breath 

To catch the dreadful battle-cry; 
And in the silence as of death 

The fateful hours go softly by. 
Oh, hear thy people where they pray 
And shrive our souls before the fray! 

Before the sun of peace shall set. 

We kneel apart a solemn while; 
Pity the eyes with sorrow wet, 

But pity most the lips that smile. 
The night comes fast; we hear afar 
The baying of the wolves of war. 

Not lightly, oh, not lightly, Lord, 

Let this our awful task begin; 
Speak from thy throne a warning word 

Above the angry factions' din. 
If this be thy Most Holy will. 
Be with us still — be with us still! ' 



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